[1] https://www.computerworld.com/article/2551458/asperger-s-oxy...
So did Stallman.
> Stallman said he isn't autistic
His justification is basically that has no trouble with rhythms so he self-diagnosed himself as not having asperger's.
I would suggest reading this subthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26535390 and more specifically this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26538554
They don't see it that way.
> His justification is basically that has no trouble with rhythms so he self-diagnosed himself as not having asperger's.
Stallman said he didn't have most of the characteristics of Asperger's. Rhythm was just an example.
> I would suggest reading this subthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26535390 and more specifically this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26538554
BAP doesn't change the issue of unqualified people diagnosing someone they don't know. Or using it as an excuse.
"The announcement of the Friday event does an injustice to Marvin Minsky: “deceased AI ‘pioneer’ Marvin Minsky (who is accused of assaulting one of Epstein’s victims [2])” The injustice is in the word “assaulting”. The term “sexual assault” is so vague and slippery that it facilitates accusation inflation: taking claims that someone did X and leading people to think of it as Y, which is much worse than X... The word “assaulting” presumes that he applied force or violence, in some unspecified way, but the article itself says no such thing... We can imagine many scenarios, but the most plausible scenario is that she presented herself to him as entirely willing. Assuming she was being coerced by Epstein, he would have had every reason to tell her to conceal that from most of his associates…"
Not politically clever to say, but hardly an endorsement of sexual assault.